Karen Cinpinski witnessed this particular euphoria in 2008. It nearly gave her whiplash.

"I remember that being the first time in a long time that the Brewers were in the pennant race at the same time that the Packers kicked off their season," she said. "It was the first time I ever remember simultaneously watching both Wisconsin baseball and football, which was kind of tricky since I had to keep my head on rapid swivel."

She kids because it's true. Not to jinx anything, but the Brewers are on their way to a pennant race, and the Packers - well, they are the world champions about to begin a new season.

When the playing schedules of the two teams collide, it's bound to turn heads.

"To have the reigning Super Bowl champs and a potential playoff division-winning baseball team, it's going to be great for business; great for Wisconsin," said Mike Szohr, manager at Leff's Lucky Town, 7208 W. State St., Wauwatosa.

On a recent Friday night when the Brewers were expected to play at 6:10 and the Packers were on at 7, the many televisions in and outside of Leff's were tuned to a show about the Oakland A's ball girls in the 1970s - one of whom was Debbi Fields, the founder of Mrs. Fields Gourmet Cookies - and to Little League.

A bartender breathed a sigh of relief that she wasn't the one to decide how many televisions would highlight the Brewers and how many would feature the Packers. Not that it mattered. The Brewers game didn't start until after a three-hour rain delay. The Packers won the screen toss by default.

Both teams won their games. The Brewers beat the New York Mets and the Packers defeated the Arizona Cardinals.

This confluence of Wisconsin sports anticipation might be a bonanza for sports bars, but the intersection of baseball and football presents a problem, too.

"We don't quite know how to deal with that," said Mike Haferman, regional manager for Replay Sports Bar, 2238 N. Farwell Ave. "We're going to be kind of listening to the crowd. Once the Packers get involved here, they kind of take over."

At his bar, the Brewers typically draw a smaller crowd than the Packers. And it's not just because they play in town, Haferman said.

"It's not like the Packers, where everybody waits all week and they pack the place," he said. "We get a good, steady crowd (for the Brewers), but they don't take over the place."

If baseball fans do take over, it's on Wednesdays. That's when Replay brings in an organist to play tunes from Miller Park. It's hard not to feel like you're at a baseball game with an organist playing and people yelling "charge."

Not to worry, Packers fans, Replay has some ideas in mind for football season, too. They include setting up the patio to replicate Lambeau's frozen tundra. But first, it has to get through baseball season.

The team at Leff's has been planning for exactly this perfect storm of sports possibilities. The bar, which runs a shuttle to Miller Park during baseball season, offers tickets for the Sunday Brewers games with bobblehead giveaways. Not many people bought the August or September tickets when they were first offered in May. Now they're selling out quickly.

On Sept. 25, the day the Brewers give away a Randy Wolf bobblehead, the $40 package will include a ticket to the 1:10 p.m. Brewers game, a bus ride, beverages, food and, if you want, updates on the 3:15 p.m. matchup between the Packers and the Chicago Bears.

"They're excited about the Packers. We all know what that does," Szohr said.

But this is the first time in a while that Leff's has planned Brewers promotions well into autumn. "I don't think anyone's jumping off the Brewers bandwagon," he said.

Fans think there's room for both. After the Brewers' sweep of the Mets, "Madbadger" had this to say in the comments section of the Journal Sentinel: "I was only two when the Brewers made their World Series run, needless to say I remember none of it. It will be nice to be seeing relevant baseball here in Wisconsin in September and into October, I wonder how the Packers will feel if they have to play second fiddle to the Crew for a few weeks."

WTMJ-AM (620), which carries the radio broadcasts of both teams' games, prefers to think of the Brewers-Packers conflicts less as a problem and more as an embarrassment of riches.

Typically when there is a conflict, the Brewers would move to WLWK-FM (94.5). If the Brewers "get into a playoff situation, we'll re-examine that," said Steve Wexler, vice president of television radio operations for Journal Broadcast Group. "But there's no disadvantage. They're both good signals. Nobody is getting demoted."

In the past, he said, when the University of Wisconsin Badgers and Milwaukee Bucks games sometimes competed with Brewers and Packers coverage, "that's when we reach out to competing stations."

Relevance is a popular idea for the Brewers and the Packers right now.

"It's not too often that they're relevant at the same time," said Dane Pierstorff, general manager at Quaker Steak and Lube, 4900 S. Moorland Road, New Berlin. His plan is to divide the restaurant-bar's 32 televisions between the Brewers game and the Packers game.

"Obviously, when the Brewers and Packers are playing at the same time, it's probably going to be a little bit of a split," Pierstorff said. "Right now, when the Brewers are on, we put all 32 TVs on the Brewers. It's in our best interest to have the hottest thing going to keep people here."

Catch 22, a sports bar and grill at 770 N. Milwaukee St., might be new to customers, but it already knows its patrons.

"People are more excited right now for the Brewers than the Packers. We have to see what's happening in October," Catch 22 co-owner Colin Philipps said. "It's all one and the same. Everyone loves their sports in Milwaukee."

In the past, Cinpinski said Miller Park was her cure for those times that the Packers played while the Brewers were hosting a team. "I've been to a Sunday Brewers game in the past where they have the Packers game playing on one of those little TVs by the food stands," she said. "Folks stood around it between at-bats."

If you're counting fan fashion to see which team is more popular, the Packers got the nod last Friday night at Leff's, but Szohr said he sees customers wearing Brewers gear on a regular basis. Philipps said the same is true at Catch 22.

"It's really neat to see how much Brewer apparel is being worn every day," Szohr said.

But with two teams to love, some fans will surely wear their indecision on their sleeve.

"You know there's going to be someone out there with half-Packers, half-Brewers gear on," Szohr said.